poynter police officer ferguson it's me i saw my sign in 15. years that i meant to. not feel like you know at this montana stand that. every generation has a higher purpose. ours is. a great charges for the police officer at the center of george floyd's death in minneapolis 3 other officers a charge with aiding and abetting murder. is life. and we will seek justice for him and for you we will find. i mean this is out there a live from doha also coming up. 'd protests

calling for justice is still going strong well president trump appears to be backing down on his threat to the point the military against the. former defense secretary jim mattis accuses donald trump of trying to divide america and denounces what he calls a militarized response to the protests. also ahead an about turn from a top of the me ologist to admit service we should have done more to curb the pandemic. and after more than a week of protests calling for justice for a black man who died while being arrested all 4 officers have been charged george floyd's death triggered mass demonstrations across the united states and around the world and they show no sign of letting up this was the scene in new york just a couple of hours ago for days. protesters have been demanding an end to what they

say is systemic racism and then chairman who held his knee against floyd's neck well he now faces an a grade challenge of 2nd degree murder and 3 other officers have been accused of aiding and abetting. george floyd matter he was loved his family was important his life had value and we will seek justice for him and for you and we will find the very fact that we have filed these charges means that we believe in that but what i do not believe is that one successful prosecution can rectify the hurt and loss that so many people feel the solution to that pain will be slow and difficult work of constructing justice and fairness in our society. well the. family's lawyer and he's acknowledged that the new charges but says the justice will be achieved until the office is convicted got correspondents across

the united states monitoring the latest latest developments and she happy returns you standing by in washington d.c. let's start with john hendren who's in minneapolis where there's new charges have been announced and joe now we have those new charges what's the feeling once the sense on the streets the. what they've minute the mood a little bit here and that was one of the key demands was that all 4 officers face charges and the fact that the charges against mr shavon was increased people were happy to see that because that means the charge itself suggests that chilling george floyd was intentional that it wasn't premeditated but it was intentional the fair degree charge simply meant that there was a reckless disregard for human life and the family and the protesters felt that that was not an appropriate charge the other 3 are charged with abetting should've on in that act so yes it is sort of a beginning but

a lot of people think the protesters might and once they achieve that initial goal and that's not what i'm hearing at all here what i'm hearing from people is that that proves that these protests have been effective and therefore they have more work to do and so as you can see they're all out here this is a little flower memorial you can see people celebrating in their own way and their center and on the other side under that suit signed by the balloons that's the site where george floyd spent his last moments and you see a lot of people paying their respects you'll notice people will trade all over this area but they won't trade on that particular space which has been netted off and people go there for some for reflection but to answer your question we have heard a lot of satisfaction over the fact that there. has been some action they like the fact that he felt listen who is a 6 time congress member and an african-american prosecutor known to the community

he's in charge of this they have many people i talk to have confidence in him and they're happy also that there is a parallel f.b.i. and investigation into whether those officers acted under color of law in committing a crime that would be a separate federal investigation so a lot of people here are saying that there has been some progress but nearly everyone here i've talked to says it's not enough they need a systematic change they need these police departments to change and they need new cities to change because they feel they're racially discriminatory you know tell us a little bit more about that as you say there has been some progress but there's a long long way to go to say the least what are the what are the things that people aiming for what else are they protesting about. brown the governor of minnesota has has begun he said he's listen to the protesters and as a result of that he's launched an investigation into potential human rights violations by the minneapolis police department that's going to go back 10 years

and look at the practices procedures and actions of those police officers and determine if there's a pattern of racial discrimination and one reason for that is about 40 percent of minneapolis is minority about thirds of the cases involving allegations of excessive force are involving minority people so that's one of the things that they're asking for we're going to just asking for here they're asking for it across the country and really the ultimate demand here is they want to see cases of police killing unarmed african american men and women just stop across the nation i can't tell you how many of these i've covered in ferguson missouri in florida they've happened in chicago l.a. new york. and what people really want is systematic change within these. apartments new rules more african-american officers hired and procedures that don't allow them to do the kind of discretion that they have to do what they did just

a few feet away from here george floyd. thanks very much that's a picture of minneapolis let's head over to washington d.c. . pretty close to the white house. has been talking about the potential for sending in the military but now he seems to be pulling back on that. yeah you seem to be coming in to a right wing news channel we said well maybe we will maybe we won't maybe we don't need to because we have such a strong national guard but he's doing the time when members of the establishment the military establishment both past and present have been distancing themselves about the use of the military here in d.c. where he has a great deal of power to override local authorities the man doesn't want the job the streets of d.c. but the white house is completely over it and we are surrounded by and. this is by the way just for just as we've seen. a lot of the protests we've seen over the

stretching thousands deep where we are outside the white house for all the protests going on the capitol hill further north in d.c. this is a huge a huge protest today in washington and it could have been so different because yesterday with the military keeping a low profile ever it was about to protest this a pretty much the barely any arrests made any kind of shows of force very few of these to hear from the military today they've decided to do something different i mean this is use of the military on this on the streets of d.c. it's making many in the military establishment easy to say we have. the defense secretary yesterday beginning to distance himself from saying well he never meant to be part of that photo opportunity by just a john he thought he was going to see a damaged toilet by the by the white house and then today he made to speak. playset donald trump host suggested that he would invoke the insurrection act that was it was a bad idea that has led to the insurrection act is donald trump interesting already

to conflict take control of the national guard federally and in states where they have governance he should be in control is donald trump overriding that authority having control of the national guard but also threatening to bring him to admit it for units to start to do in d.c. already these are professional soldiers trained should kill people overseas to police americans mark yes but not happy without either. i've always believed and continue to believe that the national guard is best suited for performing domestic support to civil authorities and these situations in support of local law enforcement i say this not only as secretary defense but also as a former soldier and a former member of the national guard the option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations we are not in one of those situations now i do not support invoking the insurrection act.

well so that said donald trump's current defense secretary and his former defense secretary has also weighed in his. rights and we should be clear again is this on these about how the whole trump is talking about using the military on the streets of the united states it's not necessarily about the militarization of the police and dramatics who's just spoken about the forward defense secretary have been in charge of something billions of dollars of military equipment to police units around the country to police not been able hoods with personnel carriers and that they just weaponry from the pentagon they're happy with that or they don't like them is for that also to be the u.s. military on the streets that seems to be the bone of contention so now we have jim matzos the former defense secretary giving what is for him. to struggle a number of levels let me begin donald trump is the 1st president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the american people does not even pretend to try and so

he tries to divide us we're witnessing the consequences of 3 years of this deliberate effort and then he goes on to i love vibrant defense of the thousands of people on the streets. protesting that we must project to hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our constitution but i think it is even further and that's kind of the stunning bit and you have to read it yourself so i'm not going to make the. connection but he certainly then begins talking about the nazis he begins talking about the nazis one paragraph after is talking about how don't trump is trying to divide the nation and he goes on to talk about how the nazis tried to divide the nation when they were in power and you can make your own inferences i guess but we should be clear this is the establishment fighting back and how donald trump is using the military these are the same people who have a militarized police and domestic life in the united states in general. right she had been even if my thanks very much indeed that's a pitch from washington d.c. is crowds gather in some numbers in the streets near the white house thanks very much and they well the former u.s.

president barack obama he's addressed the crisis brought about by the death of george will and he says the people of color have witnessed too much violence and he called for progress on reforms. i want to speak directly to the young men and women of color in this country. who is where i'm just so eloquently described we have witnessed too much far and too much of it and you won't and some of the violence has come. from folks who were supposed to be serving and protecting you. i want you to know that you matter i want you to know that your lives matter but your dreams matter that's barack obama i mean while thousands of people have gathered in london in solidarity with protests in the united states organizers say they're also much against systemic racism in britain a mass gatherings are still banned out of the u.k.'s coronavirus restrictions but the prime minister boris johnson said he understood the anger after george floyd's

death and support their right to protest and hundreds of people in the german city of frankfurt they came out to express their outrage over the killing of george floyd in the united states many held science in support of social justice groups and chanted against racism and in south africa solidarity process was held outside of cape town's part of this protest is there also showing support for the global black lives matter movement the call for action against police brutality at home. still ahead here on al-jazeera. thousands if i look down in argentina to protest against the killing of women. of. color we got lots of sunshine to come across the korean peninsula and for japan

area clad him making its way out of the way bright disguise coming back in behind that is of course my fronts the heavy rains the seasonal rides that's set to continue across central and southwestern parts of china but to the north of that also warm sunshine 30 celsius there for beijing we get up to $26.00 in seoul and a similar temperature there in tokyo spot the davis as we go on through friday more of the same be funny thing out west so weather will not a little further north would slide a little further south was just having a little wave there south of that hong kong a sticky $32.00 celsius sunshine in shares to across southeast asia as per usual some lively showers certainly in the forecast just around the gulf of thailand around the potential pushing into some entre as we go through the next day or 2 elsewhere which is the usual heat of the day downpours that was joking with very close eye on tropical cyclone the saga continues to cause problems just around the western side of india is making its way inland now very heavy rain flooding right

it'll drop that heavy rain opera cross the plains and pushing up towards the higher ground there brought disguised to come back in behind but notice the showers continue for the next few days. but. on the atlantic coast of west africa communities are at risk. as rising sea levels and manmade disaster. after reading people's lives. on land and at sea. al-jazeera world exposed the impact of climate change and a catastrophic human error. on senegal sinking villages. out

again you're watching al-jazeera her mind of our top stories this hour and the police officer who know on the neck of an armed black man george floyd in minneapolis is facing an upgraded charge of 2nd degree murder 3 other officers have been charged with aiding and abetting murder the incident to spark more than a week of mass protests in the united states. at times on the demonstrations have turned violent with buildings and cars set on fire and shops looted president donald trump had threatened to send in the national military but now he says he doesn't think we'll have. the former u.s. defense secretary jim mattis has criticized trump's handling of the crisis he's accused the president of dividing the american people saying the consequences are the result of 3 years without mature leadership. structure has become the latest

social media platform to limit the reach of u.s. president donald trump's posts the company will no longer promote trump's videos in its discover section saying it will not amplify voices that incite violence last week twitter attacks warnings on trump's tweets about mail in ballots and violence in minneapolis. well facebook's founder has been criticized for not taking similar action against trump's recent posts and an open letter former employees accuse mark zuckerberg of being cowardly and betraying the company's ideals for defending his hands off approach to post by political figures the former staffers called on him meant checks on speeches by some leaders as it does for other uses for the trouble ministration is announcing stopping all chinese passenger flights from landing in the united states from june the 16th washington accuses beijing of failing to comply with existing aviation agreements saying it's become impossible for u.s. airlines to resume services to china relations between the world's 2 largest

economies of start of the global pandemic a new laws that jeopardize hong kong's autonomy. china is warning that the u.k. that interfering in hong kong's affairs could backfire and so after the prime minister the british prime minister said the u.k. was ready to offer millions of people in hong kong to citizenship if a controversial national security law is imposed china says foreign influence is a threat to the territory stability and prosperity the people who would have access to what johnson calls a route to citizenship are those with a passport which stands for british national overseas the piano was issued to people in hong kong when it was still a british colony before it was handed back to china and that was in 1970 it is a travel document but it does not automatically give holders british citizenship or allow them to live or work in the u.k. around 300000 people hold the passport nearly 2900000 in hong kong eligible for it or about 40 percent of the population britain has more from london and he says the

move is likely to strain ties between china and the u.k. . i think the issuing of this message by 1st of all the foreign secular dominic rob and emphasized and reiterated by the prime minister himself boris johnson shows i think that the normal discreet lines of diplomacy seem the options seem to be narrowing china has pressed on with this national security law despite opposition and the foreign service here in the u.k. has grown increasingly concerned about that now what are they offering well 1st of all at the moment be a no passport holders that's 30350000 of them can come here for 6 months without needing a visa the often hours for to be extended to 12 months and to have a right to work here in the u.k. and potentially have a pathway to citizenship and what boris johnson has gone even further than the foreign secretary is saying is that if he's gone to extended to those who are

eligible to apply for that passports are not just the current passport holders but those eligible to apply so you can see this is a really major shift in the government's stance and one that has drawn sharp criticism from china the british government has gone ahead with it anyway so you can see that it's not tempers necessarily but hackles are right are rising on both sides in other news china has denied it with held critical information about the corona virus in the early stages of the pandemic and investigation by the associated press from the beijing delayed the release of vital details including a genetic map of the virus all the while world health organization officials heaped praise on china in an effort to coax out more information to you as this report when news of the virus emerged in january the world health organization lauded beijing's for sponsors we were very impressed with the level of engagement of the chinese government at all levels. but while the un agency praised china in public

privately officials were reportedly frustrated by a lack of transparency an investigation by the associated press concluded that chinese health officials not only withheld information about the outbreak they also delayed distributing the card $900.00 by several days chinese health officials told the public that the possibility of human to human transmission over the w.h.o. tweeted in agreement but behind the scenes agency staff were apparently skeptical $100.00 train china positively as w.h.o. director at honda did during a meeting that she didn't ping in late january was said to be used as a strategy to gain more information china's foreign ministry says the associated press report is untrue. things the epidemic broke out china has been acting as an open transparent and responsible we have stayed in close in the song communication

cooperation with the doubly joe since the beginning of the outbreak china's foreign ministry has not any cover up or accuracy when it comes will forming the public about the run of hours these new allegations deal and added blow to birthday drink and the world health organization at a time when the agency is struggling to maintain support chinese officials last week donald trump said the u.s. was terminating its relationship with the w.h.o. accusing it of being china's centric chinese president xi jinping has meanwhile pledged to $1000000000.00 to the organization over the next 2 years for funding which analysts say could increase china's influence over the agency. inside of you a chance to efficient within the u.s. really. they have to make sure the. same time not alienating other. even. china has agreed to

a double. let's review into the origin of the pandemic once the outbreak is under control and investigation which many will be scrutinizing when it does happen. al-jazeera beijing. these scientists behind sweden's controversial coronavirus strategy has admitted or thought he should have done more to combat the illness. is now says too many died too soon unlike other countries in europe sweden did not impose a strict lock down a good many businesses a put in the 1st weeks of the crisis citizens were left to practice social distancing on a voluntary basis with a nation of over $10000000.00 people has recorded more than $4500.00 deaths linked to covert 90 far more than its nordic neighbors and the 8 highest death rate per capita in the world an official inquiry is expected to be launched the prime minister stephan often says the governments will appoint a commission before the summer well poor reeses in the swedish city of melbourne on how and is to ignore comments have been going down with the public. understanding

l's apparent criticism of the swedish coronavirus strategy came as quite a surprise not least because the criticism was against himself as the state epidemiology 10 yelled at the swedish government the 1st 2 in its handling of the pandemic and its tenure same with the public health agency who's made the recommendations rather than restrictions that have enabled sweden to avoid a lockdown now what's said on tuesday to swedish radio was that with the benefit of hindsight he might have done things differently at the start of the crisis and maybe taken a route that was somewhere between a lock down and the more relaxed swedish strategy on wednesday quickly moved to say no that's not the case i still believe in the approach one of the things he mentioned and that sweden has recognised is that they've failed to protect people in old people's homes of the 4500 people who have died in sweden

around $4000.00 have been over 70 and around half lived in old people's accommodation now that's one of the things that's made the death toll so much higher than in sweden's neighbors of the why denmark and fenland what tunnels also been at pains to point out on wednesday is that we'll all have to use the benefits of hindsight in the months to come to see whether they locked down strategy or a more relaxed suite a strategy was more effective when we see what happens in the countries coming out of lockdown. now the world health organization says that to morrow cases would be reported in the democratic republic of congo. health officials records of a 2nd outbreak of the virus of the 6 cases were confirmed to equip the province of the new infections all in the same province but the virus has spread to a different area the country had been preparing to declare itself a bowl of free after battling an epidemic in the east that killed at least 2000

people suit 2080. a french court has approved the transfer of a rwandan genocide suspect to a u.n. tribunal felicien is accused of bankrolling the 994 massacre of at least 800000 people in 100 days his defense team had argued he was too elderly and frail to be transferred but the court ruled the 84 year old's age and health were not obstacles. first lady bonnie has been arrested for murder earlier this year she was charged with ordering the killing of her husband's 1st wife thomas to body resigned last month as prime minister but he's also suspects and hasn't been charged this article any had been out on conditional release his appeal court revoked bail last week. officials in india have urged people to stay at home because of a tropical cyclone that's hit 2 states on the west coast at least 100000 residents

of maharastra and states have already fled their homes in mumbai dozens of patients recovering from the coronavirus had to be. a german paedophile has been identified as the prime suspect in the disappearance of a british girl 13 years ago madeleine mccann was 3 years old when she went missing while on holiday with her family in portugal in 2007 police believe a german man was in the same resort area at the time and of transferred a camper van to another name the day she vanished he's currently in prison in germany for sexual assault offenses. thousands of people in argentina have defied the coronavirus not done to join protests calling for an end to the killing of women not one less movement has been gaming women to move for the past 5 years as femicide continues to rise present reports from us. it's been 5 years since the north one less movement in argentina became

a force to defend women rights in the south american country. the split of 19 prevented the gathering of thousands of people in front of the presidential palace but some of them saying they cannot stay at home when women continue to die almost daily. that we started because we were angry as there's no justice and it hasn't been resolved and continues to fail every 26 hours a woman dies because there's no budget assigned to fight violence. says the quarantine was imposed in march at least 57 are known to have been killed by their partners or former partners 77 children lost their mothers even though the government has created a women's ministry and implemented measures to try and prevent women from being abused n.g.o.s say more needs to be done. you know that they believe that in personal protective measure to defend a woman can prevent violence by itself and it's not the case right now there are

women living with their aggressors and nobody can protect them especially in times of current. ngo saying proof that the current policies are failing are the 300 women that have been killed in the past year people came here not only to demand more government action to prevent various sides in this country but also to demand a legal i say center of abortion in argentina abortion. rights in this country if i were to make life a risk or in case of rape. then a. lot of families was expected to present a new law in congress this year to legalize abortion but the whole process was delayed because of covert 19 say were only rendered political but still it's a divisive issue in argentina where the catholic church and pope francis who. are strong opponents of. the funeral says it's time to divide church and state

in this mostly catholic country and it is there but getting there but again we want to separate the church from the state because they get millions a subsidy when there's only $1.00 per woman to protect them from gender violence ever wants a priest they can pay for it the government shouldn't give money to an institution that goes against women's right. right these people vowed to continue fighting for to save women's lives. that is what i just. so this is out there these are the top stories and the police officer who knelt on the neck of on down to black man george floyd in minneapolis is facing an upgraded charge of 2nd degree murder 3 other officers have been charged with aiding and abetting murder before his death more than a week of a mass protests in lee u.s.

time some of the demonstrations have turned violent with buildings and cars set on fire and shops looted president donald trump had threatened to send in the national military but now says he doesn't think they'll have to the former u.s. defense secretary jim mattis has criticized trump's handling of the crisis he's accused the president of dividing the american people so in the consequences are the result of 33 years without mature leadership. snap chat has become the latest social media platform to limit the reach of donald trump's posts the company will no longer promote trump's videos in its discover section saying it will not fight voices that incite violence facebook has come under pressure for not taking similar action the trouble ministration has announced is stopping all chinese flights from landing in the u.s. from june the 16th and washington accuses beijing of failing to comply with existing aviation agreements saying it's become impossible for u.s. airlines to resume services to china relations between the world's 2 largest economies of soured over the global pandemic and new laws that jeopardize hong

kong's autonomy. or china is warning the u.k. that interfering in hong kong's affairs could backfire and so after the british prime minister said the u.k. was ready to offer millions of people in hong kong a route to citizenship if a controversial national security law is imposed the world health organization says it to more cases have been reported in the democratic republic of congo earlier congolese health officials recorded a 2nd outbreak of the virus after 6 cases were confirmed in ecuador province the new infections are in the same province but show the virus has spread to a different area jail german paedophile has been identified as the prime suspect in the disappearance of a british girl 13 years ago madeleine mccann was 3 years old when she went missing while on holiday with her family in portugal in 2007. or are you upset with headlines here and odds are we have more news coming up right off the inside story . of.

well the killing of george for change race relations in the u.s. protests against police brutality continue president donald trump is accused of fanning the flames is there enough momentum to change laws and as you choose what is already a polarized election year this is inside still. hello welcome.